Fractured Eden


Fiction - Suspense
390 Pages
Reviewed on 05/24/2016
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Author Biography

Steven Gossington is an emergency room physician (medical school - Baylor College of Medicine; residency - Georgetown University Hospital) with over 30 years of patient care experience. For 11 years, he was an academic professor in emergency medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, and he published 20 book chapters and medical articles of original research. His enjoyment of mystery and suspense fiction and his love of writing led to his first novel "Fractured Eden," a psychological suspense story in which he draws upon his extensive experience with mentally ill emergency room patients. He can be contacted at www.StevenGossington.com.

    Book Review

Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite

Fractured Eden by Steven Gossington is a suspense thriller. Dr Rovsing has lost everything. Fired from a job he loves, attacked by the father of a patient, he finds himself moving on, having to start his life over again. A small town in East Texas should be the perfect place, but something is wrong. The people of the town are wrong. Abductions, mental illness and addiction haunt the town. Dr Rovsing may soon find himself in trouble when a serial killer sets his sights on the doctor as his next victim. How is Aaron Rovsing going to get out of this one? Will he live to tell the tale and, if he does, will he still be sane?

Fractured Eden by Steven Gossington is great story, packed full of suspense. It isn’t your average suspense thriller though, because Mr Gossington has interwoven elements of the supernatural with a masterful tale of murder, making this an original and thrilling roller coaster of a read. With action on every page, there was always something that kept me reading. It was a case of 'just one more page' which turned into chapters in what I can only describe as an 'unputdownable' book. Mr Gossington has mastered the art of holding a reader’s attention and developing his characters in such a way that you honestly feel like you know them so well. This is a real mix of genres – suspense, thriller, action, romance, mystery, and the supernatural. I think it will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly anyone who likes a good, strong story with a great plot and plenty of twists. Excellent book, I'm really looking forward to more like this.

Kelly Monaghan

A fascinating twist on the usual conventions of thrillers and suspense novels. There’s murder and mayhem aplenty in this tale of a doctor accused of malpractice seeking a new life and maybe redemption in a small East Texas town, but the struggles and confrontations between good and evil are more spiritual than physical. I loved the way that Gossington weaves in supernatural elements that the central characters either dismiss as the colorful delusions of the mentally ill or miss altogether. Is that fleetingly glimpsed white haired woman a ghost? Maybe the dead wife of a fellow who befriends the dco? And is that guy perhaps a ghost himself? Or an angel? Beyond the entertainment value — and there’s plenty of that — the book seems to be asking us to consider the unseen forces that shape our lives. And it was refreshing to see a love story that dispensed with the bodice and boxer ripping so prevalent these days to depict a growing meeting of kindred adult souls.

brooksmusic

I really enjoyed this book. Having lived with family that suffers from mental illness, I was curious as to how the author would present it. I guess all of his years as a doctor seeing it first hand really helped him to present it in a very real way. There were also some plot twists and surprises along the way which made me want to keep reading. I read it very fast and now I want to go back and read it again. Much like watching a movie a second time and discovering things you had missed on the first viewing. I highly recommend.